In this activity, four recent SIG 10 articles are presented. First, Domsch, Stiritz, and Huff utilized a mixed-methods design to examine the cultural awareness of students in communication sciences and disorders (CSD) during and after a study-abroad experience. Next, Franca, Boyer, and Pegoraro-Krook explored activities designed to promote cultural and clinical competence in a collaboration between CSD programs in the United States and Brazil. Then, Veyvoda and Van Cleave reviewed the literature on service-learning and community-engaged learning, described how these approaches could be used in distance-learning modalities, and explored how doing so could be accomplished during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, Towson et al. studied the effectiveness of coaching paired with the use of a mixed-reality simulator as CSD students practiced interprofessional communication skills in role-play scenarios.

Learning Outcomes
You will be able to:

• define ethnocentrism
• describe methods that programs and institutions could use to create opportunities for cross-cultural interprogram collaboration
• explain the benefits of service-learning for CSD students
• compare simulated clinical learning experiences to standard practice

Assessment Type
Self-assessment—Think about what you learned and report on the Completion Form how you will use your new knowledge.

Articles in This Course

1. Cultural Awareness of Students in Communication Sciences and Disorders: A Mixed- Methods Study by Celeste Domsch, Lori Stiritz, and Jay Huff, published in SIG 10, Volume 5, Issue 5, October 23, 2020
2. Increasing Pluralistic Education Through Cross-Cultural Interprogram Collaboration by Maria Claudia Franca, Valerie Boyer, and Maria Inês Pegoraro-Krook, published in SIG 10, Volume 5, Issue 6, December 17, 2020
3. Re-Imagining Community-Engaged Learning: Service-Learning in Communication Sciences and Disorders Courses During and After COVID-19 by Michelle A. Veyvoda and Thomas J. Van Cleave, published in SIG 10, Volume 5, Issue 6, December 17, 2020
4. Effects of Using Mixed Reality With Coaching on the Interprofessional Communication Skills of Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Students by Jacqueline A. Towson, Matthew S. Taylor, Diana L. Abarca, Claire Donehower Paul, and Faith Ezekiel-Wilder, published in SIG 10, Volume 6, Issue 1, February 23, 2021